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Message-ID: <CAMP44s3EgZBtv-ifO9b+VzmTBE2wejNK7RN3ERL0+imrXzgBCg@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:50:18 -0500 From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:37:04PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: >> > If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that >> > the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a >> > backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to >> > deal with that. >> >> This is insanity; we can never guarantee 100% of anything. >> >> Better is better. And 99% is better than 90% > > An interface that describes reality is better than one that doesn't. But > hey, feel free to disagree and post a patch for the ABI docs. An interface that is useful to the user is better than one that is not. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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